Preview: Guns and Chickens

CCM
acting professor k. Jenny Jones and 20 of her students have put
together a good old-fashioned story. Actor Taylor Scruggs says, “We
wanted to create something to reflect the Chekovian acting method which
we’re learning in class.” (Micha Chekov, a legendary acting teacher,
was the nephew of playwright Anton.) “But it’s not a class doing a
show.

Guns and Chickens
is a timeless tale, a multi-cultural re-imagining of the Everyman
morality epic. The group channels the protagonist through multiple
characters and abstract movement, using song, dance comedy and tragedy.
Actors play people, ideas and props in an allegory intended to spark
the imagination and touch the heart.

Performed at Know Theatre May 27, 29 and 30 and June 2 and 6 (see map of Fringe venues here)